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David Greene is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Cinematography British born on 22 february 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
L. David Syms-Greene (22 February 1921 – 7 April 2003), born Lucius David Syms Brian Lederman, was a British television and film director who was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, who emigrated to Toronto, Canada, in 1953, where he trained in television production with the CBC, and then moved on to Hollywood, California.
Greene's career began as a stage actor and director in Britain in 1948. In 1950, he appeared in the film The Wooden Horse. In Hollywood, Greene became best known for television and film productions. Among these were:
A Season in Purgatory (1996) starring Patrick Dempsey
Children of the Dust (1995) starring Sidney Poitier
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) starring the Redgrave sisters, Lynn and Vanessa, a remake of the 1962 film of the same name.
Liberace: Behind the Music (1988) starring Victor Garber
Inherit the Wind (1988) starring Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards, Jr.
Circle of Violence (1986) starring Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix; won a Wise Owl Award for Outstanding Television film.
Fatal Vision (TV)(1984) starring Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint
Rehearsal For Murder (1982) starring Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave
Friendly Fire (1979) starring Carol Burnett; won Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special
Roots (1977) starring Lorne Greene and Maya Angelou; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) starring Nick Nolte and Ray Milland; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Godspell (1973); the film was nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival
The People Next Door (1970), an episode of CBS Playhouse starring Eli Wallach and Julie Harris; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama
Greene was married seven times: Margaret Lane (1941–48), Katharine Blake (1948–59), Eileen Grace Jack (1959–70), Thomasina Doreen Patricia Jones (1972–73), Vanessa Linsell (1975–81), Lauren Rickey Greene (1981–2001) and Kelly Greene (2003). Greene was divorced from five of his seven wives. His marriage to Thomasina ended in her death and his seventh ended in his own death three days later. He had one child each with Vanessa Linsell, Thomasina Jones, Eileen Grace Jack and Katharine Blake.
He died aged 82 on 7 April 2003 of pancreatic cancer, in Ojai, California.
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David Greene
Birth name Lucius David Syms Brian Lederman
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 february 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 7 april 2003 (at 82 years) at Ojai (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 february 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 7 april 2003 (at 82 years) at Ojai (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
Greene's career began as a stage actor and director in Britain in 1948. In 1950, he appeared in the film The Wooden Horse. In Hollywood, Greene became best known for television and film productions. Among these were:
A Season in Purgatory (1996) starring Patrick Dempsey
Children of the Dust (1995) starring Sidney Poitier
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) starring the Redgrave sisters, Lynn and Vanessa, a remake of the 1962 film of the same name.
Liberace: Behind the Music (1988) starring Victor Garber
Inherit the Wind (1988) starring Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards, Jr.
Circle of Violence (1986) starring Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix; won a Wise Owl Award for Outstanding Television film.
Fatal Vision (TV)(1984) starring Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint
Rehearsal For Murder (1982) starring Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave
Friendly Fire (1979) starring Carol Burnett; won Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special
Roots (1977) starring Lorne Greene and Maya Angelou; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) starring Nick Nolte and Ray Milland; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Godspell (1973); the film was nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival
The People Next Door (1970), an episode of CBS Playhouse starring Eli Wallach and Julie Harris; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama
Greene was married seven times: Margaret Lane (1941–48), Katharine Blake (1948–59), Eileen Grace Jack (1959–70), Thomasina Doreen Patricia Jones (1972–73), Vanessa Linsell (1975–81), Lauren Rickey Greene (1981–2001) and Kelly Greene (2003). Greene was divorced from five of his seven wives. His marriage to Thomasina ended in her death and his seventh ended in his own death three days later. He had one child each with Vanessa Linsell, Thomasina Jones, Eileen Grace Jack and Katharine Blake.
He died aged 82 on 7 April 2003 of pancreatic cancer, in Ojai, California.
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Rehearsal for Murder (1982)
, 1h36Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave, Patrick Macnee, Lawrence Pressman, David Greene, William Russ
Rating68%
When his leading lady (and fiancée) Monica Welles (Redgrave) is found dead from an apparent suicide after the opening night of her Broadway stage debut, playwright Alex Dennison (Preston) is left heartbroken. On the first anniversary of her death, he gathers the cast and crew from that ill-fated night in the same Broadway theater, ostensibly to read a new play he is working on, a mystery in which a famous actress is killed. As the reading progresses, the scenes seem to the cast to be uncomfortably close to actual encounters they might have had with Monica. When pressed, Alex finally reveals that he believes that Monica was murdered, and that someone at the theater is her killer.
F.I.S.T. (1978)
, 2h25Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Trucker films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Political films, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Kevin Conway
Roles Senator
Rating64%
At a loading dock in Cleveland, Ohio in 1937, supervisor Mr. Gant welcomes a new worker, Lincoln Dombrowsky (Frank McRae). Gant tells him the job requirements and pay rules. He'll be paid for working 8 hours and if he has to work overtime, he still gets paid only for 8 hours. If he drops any of the merchandise, the cost comes directly out of his pay. These are examples of unfair working practices faced by the laborers. Later Dombrowsky drops a few carts of tomatoes, which is taken out of his pay; another worker is fired for helping him collect the fallen merchandise. Johnny Kovak (Sylvester Stallone), another worker resentful of mistreatment, leads a riot. Afterward, the workers go to the office of Boss Andrews. Kovak believes he negotiates a deal for the workers, but the next day he and his friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman) are told they are fired.
The Wooden Horse (1950)
, 1h41Directed by Jack Lee
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Leo Genn, Anthony Steel, David Tomlinson, David Greene, Peter Burton, Patrick Waddington
Roles Nick Bennett
Rating68%
The somewhat fictionalised version of the true story is set in Stalag Luft III — the same POW camp where the real events depicted in the film The Great Escape took place, albeit from a different compound – and involved Williams, Michael Codner and Oliver Philpot, all inmates of the camp. In the book and film, the escapees are renamed "Flight Lieutenant Peter Howard", "Captain John Clinton" and "Philip Rowe".
The Golden Madonna (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Ladislao Vajda
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Tullio Carminati, Michael Rennie, David Greene, Aldo Silvani, Franco Coop
Roles Johnny Lester
Rating63%
A young British woman who owns a villa in Italy offends the village she lives in by throwing away a painting that they consider lucky. To redeem herself she goes out in search to try to recover it.
The Small Voice (1948)
, 1h25Directed by Fergus McDonell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Valerie Hobson, Howard Keel, James Donald, David Greene, Michael Balfour, Glyn Dearman
Roles Jim
Rating62%
Daughter of Darkness (1948)
, 1h31Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Barry Morse, Siobhán McKenna, Liam Redmond, David Greene
Roles David Price
Rating65%
In the small Irish town of Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters Dan (Maxwell Reed), a handsome young boxer – and lays his face open with her fingernails when he attempts to seduce her. Hurriedly packed off to Yorkshire by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond), Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and revulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and she finds herself face to face with the vengeful Dan.
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The Girl Next Door (1998)
, 1h27Directed by David Greene
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Tracey Gold, Tom Irwin, Sharon Gless, Michael Dorn, Mark Camacho, Brigid Tierney
Rating51%
Annie Dolan entre dans une église pour se confesser. Devant le prêtre abasourdi, la jeune femme s'accuse d'un meurtre. L'homme de Dieu lui conseille de se rendre au poste de police le plus proche afin de faire enregistrer ses aveux. La mort dans l'âme, Annie pousse la porte d'un commissariat mais, au dernier moment, prend peur et prétend avoir eu des visions et des cauchemars avant de s'enfuir. Intriguée, Gayle Bennett, une psychologue travaillant avec la police, décide de retrouver la jeune femme. Mise en confiance, celle-ci lui fait le récit de sa descente aux enfers. Tout a commencé deux ans auparavant, quand Anne a fait la connaissance de Creg.
Bella Mafia (1997)
, 1h57Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas, James Marsden
Rating67%
Lynda La Plante (who also created Widows) scripted this TV miniseries about the family life surrounding a Mafia don. Sicilian magnate Don Luciano (Dennis Farina) and his wife Graziella (Vanessa Redgrave) live comfortably at Villa Rosa in Palermo, Italy. Their son Michael (Michael Hayden) has an affair with Sophia (Nastassja Kinski), leaving her pregnant but unmarried. After Luciano refuses to traffic drugs, angry U.S. mob boss Carolla (Tony Lo Bianco) retaliates by having Michael killed. While at a convent, Sophia is given a hard blow when another pregnant woman tells her of his death; she almost immediately gives birth to Luka, Michael's son. Living at the convent, but determined to keep her son, she goes alone by herself to confront the Luciano family for money to support her son. However, the Lucianos are still coping with Michael's death and refuse admission to anyone, unless its family or those that work for them, through the gates. Despite the guard's insistence, Sophia still continues to try to seek an audience with them, only to be violently handled by the guards and almost thrown on the road. One of Michael's brothers, Constantino, taking pity on her, lets her in. He and his mother, Graziella, nurse the tired Sophia.
, 1h40Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Barbara Williams, Sebastian Spence, Diane Ladd, Joe Penny
Rating52%
Le commandant Paul Fein, un policier, enquête sur l'assassinat d'un prêtre. Une seule piste semble l'intéresser, celle des tueurs de la mafia russe. Mais son opiniâtreté commence à agacer les parrains du milieu, qui décident d'organiser la contre-attaque. Intimidations et menaces ne parviennent pas à faire fléchir le justicier, qui campe sur ses positions. Les malfrats enlèvent alors toute sa famille et la détiennent en otage. Fein hésite, entre ses devoirs professionnels et les inquiétudes naturelles du père de famille qu'il est. Habilement, il essaie de jouer sur les deux tableaux.
, 2hDirected by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Dance films, Sports films
Actors Lesley Ann Warren, Tess Harper, Dennis Christopher, William Forsythe, Olivia Burnette, Lauren Woodland
Rating58%
, 1h28Directed by David Greene
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Lesley Ann Warren, Tess Harper, Dennis Christopher, William Forsythe, Olivia Burnette, Lauren Woodland
Rating58%
Préoccupée par l’échec de sa fille au concours d’entrée de l’équipe des majorettes du collège, Wanda se met en tête d’éliminer sa voisine, dont la fille a réussi l’examen…
, 2hDirected by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about television
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Bruce Young, Amy Steel, John Glover, Vinny Argiro
Rating57%
In the 1940s, young twins Jane and Blanche Hudson are famous child stars and play mostly the same roles, despite the fact that they have completely dissimilar personalities. Jane is persistent about making a career and dominates her shy sister Blanche, who spends most of her time trying to please her other half. Nevertheless, after following some acting lessons, Blanche becomes a bigger star as soon as they grew up, and the public eventually forgets about Jane. Nowadays, the sisters are living together in a large mansion. According to tabloids, Jane grew jealous of Blanche's fame and tried to kill her, but the 'accident' only resulted in paralyzing her. Blanche relives her fame due to her films being showed on television, while Jane's films are unavailable. Jane lacks in caring about her sister's well-being, and spends most of her day trying to look as youthful as possible, even though neighbors see her as a clown because of her extensive use of make-up and childish clothing. She is reluctant to bond with her neighbors Connie and Frank, who are very open about their adoration for Blanche. Blanche realizes that her sister has mental problems, and worries when she finds out that she has started drinking alcohol again, as well as turning her fan mail into hate mail. Her massage therapist Dominick worries that Jane might have found out that she is selling the house and is therefore acting out.
Small Sacrifices (1989)
, 2h39Directed by David Greene
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, John Shea, Gordon Clapp, Emily Perkins, Sean McCann
Rating75%
On 19 May 1983 at approximately 10:48 p.m, Downs (portrayed by Fawcett) drove to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon with a gunshot wound to her arm. She claimed that an unknown assailant attempted to carjack her and shot her three children: Karen, 8 (real name Christie Ann); Shauna, 7 (Cheryl Lynn); and Robby, 3 (Stephen Daniel). Shauna was dead on arrival at the hospital. Eldest daughter Karen was badly injured, but survived suffering a temporary loss of speech due to a stroke after the shooting, but recovered sufficiently to serve as a witness in court against her mother. Diane's son was paralyzed from the chest down. Downs was diagnosed with three cluster B personality disorders: antisocial, histrionic and narcissistic. She was eventually tried and convicted of murder, attempted murder, and assault.
Inherit the Wind (1988)
, 1h36Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on plays
Actors Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, Jean Simmons, Michael Ensign, Megan Follows
Rating65%
Liberace: Behind the Music (1988)
, 1h37Directed by David Greene
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Michael Dolan, Maureen Stapleton, Frances Hyland, Shawn Levy
Rating60%
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17.